LibriVox recording of Berlins Drittes Geschlecht by Magnus Hirschfeld. Read in German by AliceStein "Berlins Drittes Geschlecht" ist eine populärwissenschaftliche Beschreibung der LGBTQ+ Kultur im Berlin der Jahrhundertwende. Magnus Hirschfeld, der spätere Gründer des Berliner Instituts für Sexualwissenschaft, beschreibt anschaulich, sachlich und mit Herz den Alltag, die Sorgen und Freuden dieser Subkultur. Summary by AliceStein For further information, including links to online...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, relationships, Berlin, gender, homosexual, 1900, lgbtq+, subculture,...
LibriVox recording of The Thrill Book Vol. I No. 6, May 15, 1919 by Various. Read in English by Librivox Volunteers. Welcome back to another exciting issue of the exciting and chilling magazine The Thrill Book, noted precursor to Weird Tales Magazine! In this, issue #6, we have two crackling serials: the first part of the terrifying haunted room story "The Crawling Hands" and the dashing conclusion of the sea-faring adventure yarn "The Devil's Own". Also included is the...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, spiders, thrill book, greye la spina, woman of weird fiction, occult magic,...
LibriVox recording of Orlando. A Biography (version 2) by Virginia Woolf. Read in English by Nicole J. LeBoeuf. Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking satire of British culture, customs, literature, philosophy, and politics from the Elizabethan era to the author's present-day 1928, as experienced by her famously long-lived and genderfluid protagonist. - Summary by Nicole J. LeBoeuf For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, satire, literature, humor, feminism, poets, lgbt, transgender
LibriVox recording of Sea Garden by Hilda Doolittle. Read in English by KevinS The first of H.D.'s book of poetry, Sea Garden contains some striking and lovely Imagist compositions. I have recorded the poems as a single performance, as it were, believing this the best way to impress upon the reader the entwining images of the book's poetry. - Summary by KevinS For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, modernist, imagist, h.d.
LibriVox recording of The Diamond Lens with Other Stories by Fitz-James O'Brien. Read in English by Ben Tucker Irish-born author Fitz-James O'Brien is a underrated genius of weird fiction, serving as the missing link between Edgar Allan Poe and later purveyors of the form like Algernon Blackwood, Ambrose Bierce and Arthur Machen. This collection contains several of O'Brien's most well-known weird tales including "The Diamond Lens" (a seance, a murder and a world beneath a microscope!)...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, melodrama, murder, weird, hypnosis, invisible, psychic, seance, world under...
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of A Land without Ruins by Abram Joseph Ryan. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 8, 2024. Read in English by Algy Pug; Adrian Stephens; Bruce Kachuk; Dave Campbell; dc; David Lawrence; jenno; LeeSalter; Lee Vogler; Majenko; Larry Wilson; Ruth Anderson; redrun and Stacey Malcolm. Abram Joseph Ryan was an American poet, Catholic priest, Catholic newspaper editor, orator, and former Vincentian. He has been called the "Poet-Priest of the...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, literature, poetry, philosophy, history
LibriVox recording of Spacemen Lost by George O. Smith. Read in English by Mark Nelson It was the greatest man hunt in history — and while this frantic rescue mission went on, the alien spaceships were watching and waiting, holding themselves ready to pounce! - Summary by Original text For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, audiobook, science fiction, George O. Smith, classic sci-fi
LibriVox recording of Don Sebastian; or, The House of the Braganza: An Historical Romance, Volume 4 by Anna Maria Porter. Read in English by Cbteddy Now living peacefully with his young family as an anonymous exile, Don Sebastian has just received word that the queen of England will back his rightful claim for the throne of Portugal. But her help will come with strings attached: the queen wants his only daughter as insurance of his loyalty. For further information, including links to online...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, portugal, don sebastian
LibriVox recording of The Bible History Volume 4: Israel under Samuel, Saul, and David, to the Birth of Solomon by Alfred Edersheim. Read in English by LibriVox volunteers. The history of Israel, viewed as the Theocracy, or Kingdom of God, consists of three periods : First, that under the guidance of Prophets (from Moses to Samuel); secondly, that under the rule of Kings (from Saul to the Babylonish Captivity); and, thirdly, that under the reign of High-priests (from Ezra to the birth of Jesus...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, samuel, bible, old testament, Israel, 1 samuel, prophet, king david, bible...
Librivox recording of the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective. They were originally published in the Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892. The title character was named after famous American poet Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (Summary from Wikipedia) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover,m4b or other formats (if...
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 32 reviews )
Topics: librivox, audiobook, literature, Holmes, adventure, Doyle
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
LibriVox recording of Ancient Civilizations of Mexico and Central America, by Herbert J. Spinden Read in English by Mario Pineda The ancient cultures of Mesoamerica developed art, stone cities, and sciences (especially astronomy and mathematics), to a degree that surpasses anything else existing in the New World. These developments may even match or overtake some developments made by the major civilizations of Europe or Asia. The author actually compares the Mayan with the Ancient Greeks, and...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, archaeology, mesoamerica, social studies, civilizations
LibriVox recording of Over the Ocean to Paris, or, Ted Scott's Daring Long Distance Flight by Franklin W. Dixon. Read in English by KevinS Ted Scott is a young man who seems born to be an aviator. He comes from an humble background, fostered by an elderly couple who know little about flying and who are fearful for their boy. Ted Scott overcomes any obstacle in his way, learns to fly, and gains fame for his skillful aerial stunts. His next goal is to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and be the...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, aviator, ted scott, transatlantic flight
LibriVox recording of History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution Vol. 3 by Mercy Otis Warren. Read in English by Librivox Volunteers. A contemporary three-volume history of the American Revolution written with an Enlightenment tone that covers the background of the era spanning the crisis caused by the Stamp Act in 1765 to the closing of the establishment of the Constitution in 1789. Warren's book carries a strong Republican viewpoint as she comprehensively guides...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, american revolution, American history
LibriVox recording of The World that Never Was by Arthur St. John Adcock. Read in English by Librivox Volunteers. Olive, age seven and a half, and her brother Tony, who is one year younger, live in London. Because their mother has been sent away ill, they are being raised by their beautiful but unpleasant Aunt Prue, their dad, who is a businessman too busy to see them, and their loving but homely nurse Becky. One night, a mysterious appearance by their mother leads them to a great adventure....
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, fantasy, London, juvenile
LibriVox recording of Von Wundern und Tieren by Wilhelm Bölsche. Read in German by Claus Misfeldt. In seinem Buch schildert der Autor in allgemeinverständlicher Sprache große und kleine Wunder aus dem Tierreich. Wir hören von Dinosauriern, versunkenen Urkontinenten und ihren tierischen Bewohnern, schauen in das Innere eines Termitenbaues oder lernen leuchtende Tiere kennen, um nur einige Beispiele zu nennen. Und auch, wenn das Buch den Stand der Wissenschaft von Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, nature, animals, natur, tiere, lemming, biologie, termiten, schmetterling,...
LibriVox recording of Christmas Carol Collection 2018 by Various. Sung in various languages by LibriVox volunteers. LibriVox volunteers bring you a festive selection of 21 Christmas carols for the 2018 holiday. This year's collection includes traditional favorites and lesser-known selections in English, Dutch, French, Greek, Scottish Gaelic, and German. The singers wish all listeners around the world a happy and peaceful Christmas and New Year. - Summary by Maria Kasper Avent ; words...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, Christmas, music, carols
LibriVox recording of Lady Bountiful by Arthur Wing Pinero. Read in English "The story of "Lady Bountiful" is, I venture to think, human and interesting enough to offer possibilities to the novelist; whereas Mr. Pinero treated it, after his lights, in dramatic form. And he gripped the attention of his audiences, and made them laugh and made them cry, and yet "Lady Bountiful" cannot be described as a popular success, in London at all events. In New York its success was...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, class, wealth, reputation, social expectations, charitable works
LibriVox recording of The Red Hawk by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Read in English by Ben Tucker This third book in Edgar Rice Burroughs' Moon Sequence (preceded by The Moon Maid and The Moon Men) finds Julian 20th, The Red Hawk, leading the last Americans, now a primitive nomadic people, to a final skull-splitting confrontation with the dread Kalkars, the Moon Men who enslaved humanity with the help of traitor Ortis in the previous volumes. The pace is relentless, the fighting is fierce, and The Red...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, the moon maid, the moon men, kalkars, future western, horseback combat
Librivox recording of The Odyssey , by Homer (transl. Samuel Butler). The Odyssey is one of the two major ancient Greek epic poems (the other being the Iliad ), attributed to the poet Homer. The poem is commonly dated to between 800 and 600 BC. The poem is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad , and concerns the events that befall the Greek hero Odysseus in his long journey back to his native land Ithaca after the fall of Troy. It takes Odysseus ten years to return to his native land of Ithaca after...
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 5 reviews )
Topics: LibriVox, literature, audiobook, homer, classics, adventure, poetry
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Librivox recording of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , by Mark Twain. Read by Annie Coleman . Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) by Mark Twain is one of the truly great American novels, beloved by children, adults, and literary critics alike. The book tells the story of "Huck" Finn (first introduced as Tom Sawyer's sidekick in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ), his friend Jim, and their journey down the Mississippi River on a raft. Both are on the run, Huck from his drunk and abusive...
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 16 reviews )
Topics: librivox, audiobook, literature, twain, huckleberry, finn
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
LibriVox recording of Imperialism and World Politics, Part 1 of 4 by Parker Thomas Moon. Read in English by Alister Moon’s Imperialism and World Politics is perhaps the best-known work of the Columbia University professor and political scientist; It was published in 1926 and did not go out-of-print until after 1940. “What convenient volume,” he asks, exists as a “general account of the greater imperialism of our own times?” A question which was suitably answered by the publication of...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, henry morton stanley, william ewart gladstone, benjamin disraeli, jules...
LibriVox recording of Dracula, by Bram Stoker. The classic vampire story by Bram Stoker revolves around a struggle between good and evil, tradition and modernity, and lust versus chastity. The author didn't invent vampires, but his novel has so captured the public's imagination that he is rightly considered their popularizer. Listen and you will meet not only the Count himself, but heroes Jonathan Harker and Abraham Van Helsing, plus an array of madmen, psychiatrists, and fair maidens who cross...
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 20 reviews )
Topics: librivox, audiobook, literature
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Librivox recording of The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Read by Kara Shallenberg Mary Lennox is a spoiled, middle-class, self-centred child who has been recently orphaned. She is accepted into the quiet and remote country house of an uncle, who has almost completely withdrawn into himself after the death of his wife. Mary gradually becomes drawn into the hidden side of the house: why does she hear the crying of a unseen child? Why is there an overgrown, walled garden, its door long...
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 5 reviews )
Topics: literature, audiobook, children, librivox
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Librivox recording of Moby Dick, or the Whale, by Herman Melville. Read by Stewart Wills Few things, even in literature, can really be said to be unique -- but Moby Dick is truly unlike anything written before or since. The novel is nominally about the obsessive hunt by the crazed Captain Ahab of the book's eponymous white whale. But interspersed in that story are digressions, paradoxes, philosophical riffs on whaling and life, and a display of techniques so advanced for its time that some have...
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 28 reviews )
Topics: librivox, audiobook, literature
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
LibriVox recording of Music by Ursula Creighton. Read in English by Martha H. Weller. "So many books are written for beginners on the appreciation of music that I can be thankful that advancing age makes it unnecessary for me to read them, and when I do have to look into any of them I wonder whether the young people of to-day derive as much pleasure from them as I did at eighteen from reading Sir John Hawkins’ History of Music. But I have read this book of Mrs. Creighton’s with much...
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, music history
Librivox recording of The Count of Monte Cristo , by Alexandre Dumas. The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo ) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is often considered, along with The Three Musketeers , as Dumas's most popular work. The writing of the work was completed in 1844. Like many of his novels, it is expanded from the plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter Auguste Maquet. The story takes place in France, Italy, islands in the...
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 19 reviews )
Topics: monte cristo, dumas, librivox, audiobook, adventure, romance
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
LibriVox recording of Steps to Christ, by Ellen White. Read by Donald Hines. Ellen Gould White (1827 - 1915) was a prolific Christian writer, authoring 40 books in her lifetime. She was active in the Millerite movement, and was one of the principle founders of the Seventh Day Adventist Church. Steps to Christ, first published in 1892, is her most popular book. It has been translated into more than 70 languages. The theme of the book is how to come to know Christ better. (Summary by Donald...
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Religion, History, librivox, audiobooks
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Librivox recording of Pride and Prejudice , by Jane Austen. For more information on our readers, see our catalog page: http://librivox.org/pride-and-prejudice-by-jane-austen/ Pride and Prejudice is the most famous of Jane Austen's novels, and its opening is one of the most famous lines in English literature - "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." Its manuscript was first written between 1796 and 1797,...
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 7 reviews )
Topics: librivox, audiobook, literature
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
LibriVox recording of The City at World's End, by Edmond Hamilton. Read by Mark Nelson. A surprise nuclear war may cause the End of the World, but not the way anyone could have imagined. A classic science fiction tale from Galaxy Magazine. (Summary by Mark Nelson) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a...
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 15 reviews )
Topics: librivox, literature, audiobook, adventure, fantasy, fiction, science fiction
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
LibriVox recording of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll. Read by Kara Shallenberg. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic in ways that have given the story lasting popularity with adults as well as children. It is considered to be one of the most characteristic examples of the "literary nonsense" genre, and...
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 3 reviews )
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, children, fantasy, adventure, carroll, fiction
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
LibriVox recording of The Life of Frederick William von Steuben by Friedrich Kapp. Read in English by Roselbex and Isad. The Life of Frederick William Von Steuben: Major General in the Revolutionary Army - tells the story of Baron Steuben, who had been an officer in the Prussian army. Considered one of the fathers of the United States Army, he had a leading role in improving the Continental Army during the American Revolution and turning them into a professional fighting force. See text for...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, american revolution, American history
LibriVox recording of Pride and Prejudice , by Jane Austen. Read by Elizabeth Klett. Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen's classic comic romance, in which the five Bennett sisters try to find that most elusive creature: a single man in possession of a large fortune. Sparks fly when sweet, pretty Jane meets their new neighbor, Mr. Bingley, but her sister Elizabeth is most offended by his haughty friend, Mr. Darcy. This is Austen at the height of her powers: the ironic narration, hilariously drawn...
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 9 reviews )
Topics: librivox, audio, austen, pride, prejudice, literature, romance
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Librivox recording of Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen. Read by Annie Coleman . Jane Austen's classic novel chronicles the events in the lives of the Bennet family. Take a family with five unmarried daughters and a lack of wealth, throw in a new wealthy neighbor or two, plus a whole regiment of soldiers in town, and add a heaping spoonful of pride and a pinch of prejudice. Mix it all together and you get a story full of tears and laughter, embarrassment and pride, and, of course, love....
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 5 reviews )
Topics: librivox, audiobook, literature
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1342
Librivox recording of Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad. Read by Kristin Luoma Set in a time of oppressive colonisation, when large areas of the world were still unknown to Europe, and Africa was literally on maps and minds as a mysterious shadow, Heart of Darkness famously explores the rituals of civilisation and barbarism, and the frighteningly fine line between them. We get the tale through a classic unreliable narrator, relating as Marlow, a ship's captain, tells how he was sent by the...
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 7 reviews )
Topics: librivox, literature, audiobook, classic
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
LibriVox recording of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Read by Mark F. Smith. Dr. Watson chronicles here some of the more interesting detective cases that he and his good friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, have encountered during their association. We see the cases unfold as he does, scratch our heads as does he while the evidence is collected, and then marvel at the impeccable observations, remarkable insight, and doggedness which Holmes displays as he teases apart the...
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 12 reviews )
Topics: librivox, audiobook, doyle, mystery, sherlock holmes, literature, adventure
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
LibriVox recording of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes , by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Read by Ruth Golding . A collection of twelve short stories featuring Conan Doyle's legendary detective, originally published as single stories in Strand Magazine and subsequently collected into a single volume. There is not always a crime committed nor a culprit to find, and when there is, Holmes does not invariably get his man. However, his extraordinary powers of deduction generally solve the mystery, often...
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 5 reviews )
Topics: librivox, audio book, mystery, sherlock holmes, crime, detective, short stories
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
LibriVox recording of The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself by Josiah Henson. Read in English by KevinS The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself is an autobiographical narrative given by Josiah Henson and written by Samuel Atkins Eliot. Henson's life story was the real-life inspiration for Harriet Beecher Stowe's best-selling novel Uncle Tom's Cabin . During his life, Josiah Henson...
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, slavery, memoir, autobiography, african american, fugitive, fugitive slave
LibriVox recording of 1891 Collection by Various. Read by Bellona Times A look at the year 1891 through literature and non-fiction essays first published that year, including works by Mary E Wilkins, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sara Orne Jewett, and Oscar Wilde. (Summary by BellonaTimes) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover, M4B or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio...
Topics: Romance, mystery, commentary, Max O'Rell, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sarah Orne Jewett, A J Payne, Edith...
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
LibriVox recording of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Read by Karen Savage. Pride and Prejudice is the most famous of Jane Austen’s novels, and its opening is one of the most famous lines in English literature - “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” Its manuscript was first written between 1796 and 1797, and was initially called First Impressions, but was never published under that title. Following...
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 17 reviews )
Topics: librivox, literature, audiobook, austen, romance, humour
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Librivox recording of Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Read by John Greenman. Among the most "banned" books in the United States, Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is a novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe which treats slavery as a central theme. Stowe was a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Academy and an active abolitionist. The novel is believed to have had a profound effect on the North’s view of slavery. In fact, when he met...
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 13 reviews )
Topics: librivox, audiobook, literature, stowe, uncle tom
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
LibriVox recording of Πολιτεια του Πλατωνα (τομος τέταρτος) by Plato (Πλάτων). Read in Greek by karampas1968 Ποια ειναι η γνωμη του πλατωνα για την κοινοκτημοσυνη των γυναικων και των παιδιων; Πρεπει οι αρχοντες να ειναι φιλοσοφοι; Οι λυρικοι ποιητες πρεπει η οχι να εξοριστουν απο την ιδανικη...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, ιδανική πολιτεία
LibriVox recording of The Black Cat Vol. 04 No. 02 November 1898 by Various. Read in English by Chris Pyle; Greg Giordano; Inkell; Julie Burks; Alan Mapstone The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Many writers were largely unknown, but some famous authors also wrote original material for this magazine. This is the second issue of Volume 4 with the following stories: > The Pillow of Justice,...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, adventure, romance, Mystery, Crime, suspense, love, funny, magazine, uncanny
LibriVox recording of Five Little Peppers in the Little Brown House by Margaret Sidney. Read in English by LibriVox volunteers. “What ever became of Polly Pepper’s famous Chicken Pie, and also Phronsie’s red-topped shoes?” the friends of the “Five Little Peppers” keep asking. “We have searched through all the Pepper Books, and cannot find them. Please give us those two stories again.” At last all these requests are granted in this book, containing, first of all, those two...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, children's story, juvenile fiction, five little peppers
LibriVox recording of The Fat and the Thin, Book Three of Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Émile Zola. (Translated by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly.) Read in English by Mark Leder Florent, an escaped political prisoner, finds shelter with his half-brother Quenu, and his wife Lisa Quenu (a Macquart). They get him a job as a fish inspector at the Les Halles markets. - Summary by Mark Leder For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks
LibriVox recording of Lazarillo de Tormes. Read by Tux. La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades (más conocida como Lazarillo de Tormes) es una novela española anónima, escrita en primera persona y en estilo epistolar (como una sola y larga carta), cuya edición conocida más antigua data de 1554. En ella se cuenta de forma autobiográfica la vida de un niño, Lázaro de Tormes, en el siglo XVI, desde su nacimiento y mísera infancia hasta su matrimonio, ya en la edad...
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: librivox, audiobook, fiction, spanish, lazarillo, tormes
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
LibriVox recording of A Christmas Carol: The Miser's Warning by Charles Zachary Barnett. Read in English This theatrical version of A Christmas Carol was performed at the Surrey Theatre in February 1844 just weeks after the publication of the novella by Dickens in December of the previous year. (There were 7 other adaptations also being shown on stage then, with only 1 version - not this one - being sanctioned by Dickens.) - Summary by ToddHW Cast list: Ebenezer Scrooge, the Miser: Greg...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, Miser, changing life, spirit guides, reforming
LibriVox recording of Emma, by Jane Austen. Read by Sherry Crowther. (Vol. 1 Ch. 4 and Vol. 2 Ch. 11 read by Kara Shallenberg) Sherry reads Jane Austen’s sparkling comedy of manners with wit and vivacity, and brings the characters to life. Mr. Woodhouse worries and frets, Miss Bates chatters on, and Emma blithely manipulates and misunderstands her friends and family until she finally learns her lesson! (Summary by Kara) For further information, including links to online text, reader...
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 2 reviews )
Topics: librivox, literature, audiobook, austen, emma, comedy, regency, england
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
LibriVox recording of The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells. Read by Mark Nelson. H.G. Wells' classic science fiction-fantasy story, in which a scientist known only as “The Time Traveller” tells the tale of his journey to the year 802,701 A.D. and beyond, where he witnesses the end of human civilization as we know it, as well as the beginning of the end of the world. This original time-travel story has been copied many times, but never improved upon. (Summary by Mark Nelson) For further...
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 4 reviews )
Topics: librivox, literature, audiobook, adventure, fantasy, fiction, science fiction, teen/young adult
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
LibriVox recording of A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a historical novel by Charles Dickens; it is moreover a moral novel strongly concerned with themes of guilt, shame, redemption and patriotism. The plot centers on the years leading up to French Revolution and culminates in the Jacobin Reign of Terror. It tells the story of two men, Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton, who look very alike but are entirely different in character. (Summary from wikipedia)...
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 6 reviews )
Topics: librivox, audiobook, literature, dickens
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
LibriVox recording of The Tower Treasure (version 5) by Franklin W. Dixon. Read in English by SamuelDGraham The Hardy boys begin their first case as sons of a famous detectives tracking down a jewel thief. - Summary by SamuelDGraham For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit librivox.org...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, adventure, Mystery, hardy boys
Librivox recording of The Adventures of Pinocchio by C. Collodi and translated by Carol della Chiesa. Read by LibriVox volunteers. The Adventures of Pinocchio is a novel for children by Italian author Carlo Collodi (here transl. by Carol della Chiesa). The first half was published in serial form between 1881 and 1883, and then completed as a book for children in February 1883. It is about the mischievous adventures of Pinocchio, an animated marionette, and his poor father, a woodcarver named...
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: librivox, audiobook, literature
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Librivox recording of Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. Read by Adrian Praetzellis. A mysterious map, pirates, and pieces of eight! When young Jim Hawkins finds a map to pirates’ gold he starts on an adventure that takes him from his English village to a desert island with the murderous Black Dog, half-mad Ben Gunn, and (of course) Long John Silver. Arr Jim lad! R.L. Stevenson (1850-1894) was born in Scotland and travelled extensively in California and the south Pacific. (Summary by...
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 22 reviews )
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, pirates, Stevenson, treasure, children's literature
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
LibriVox recording of The Game of Life and How to Play It by Florence Scovel Shinn. Read by Amy Conger. Florence Scovel Shinn, an illustrator living in New York City, became a teacher of New Thought after a divorce. New Thought was a movement which holds the belief that individuals can create their own reality through intentional thoughts and prayer, much like the current Law of Attraction movement. The Game of Life and How to Play It is her first book, and is remarkable for being written by a...
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 26 reviews )
Topics: librivox, audiobook, self help, new thought, prosperity, karma, love, intuition, affirmations
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
LibriVox recording of Your Invisible Power, by Genevieve Behrend. Read by Algy Pug. Genevieve Behrend was a teacher of Mental Science, a New Thought discipline created by Thomas Troward (1847- 1916). Your Invisible Power, published in 1921, is her first and most famous book. It is a guide to the use of visualization and other mental processes in life enhancement and the achievement of personal goals. For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD...
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 42 reviews )
Topics: LibriVox, audio book, philosophy, psychology
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Don Quijote de la Mancha (ortografía y título original —1605—, El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha ) es una de las obras cumbre de la literatura española y la literatura universal, el libro más traducido después de la Biblia, escrito por Miguel de Cervantes. La novela consta de dos partes: la primera, El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha , fue publicada en 1605; la segunda, El ingenioso caballero don Quijote de la Mancha , en 1615. La primera parte se imprimió en...
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 2 reviews )
Topics: librivox, literature, audiobook, adventure, spanish
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
The classic Aesop's Fables have been translated to every language for hundreds of years. The fables, told in the form of allegories, give us universal, worldly advice. The use of animals and ancient gods makes the lessons unbiased and impartial. Short and smart, these fables entertain and enrich our lives. In this volume you will find 30 of the 300 fables we offer you in Spanish. Las clásicas Fábulas de Esopo han sido traducidas a todos idiomas por cientos de años. Las fábulas, en forma de...
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 2 reviews )
Topics: librivox, literature, children, audiobook, Aesop, Spanish, animals
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
LibriVox recording of Selected Poems by José Asunción Silva. Read in English by Newgatenovelist José Asunción Silva was a Colombian poet and exponent of the modernismo literary movement. These poems were translated by Muna Lee, Edna Worthley Underwood, William George Williams, Thomas Walsh and Alice Stone Blackwell and were published from 1916 to 1926. - Summary by Newgatenovelist For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, 19th century, modernismo, colombia
LibriVox recording of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 02). Read by Mark F. Smith. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain creates an entertaining adventure of Middle America in the 1800's - afloat on a raft on the Mississippi River. Huck escapes his civilized life when he arranges his own "murder" and turns back into the backwoods, downriver yokel he started as, and in the process springing a slave, Jim, from bondage. Huck and Jim experience life as a series of...
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 8 reviews )
Topics: librivox, literature, audiobooks, twain, adventure, satire, finn, humor
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Evening Solace by Charlotte Brontë. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for March 24, 2024. ------ Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature. This poem is taken from Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. To evade contemporary prejudice against female writers, the Brontë sisters adopted masculine first...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, philosophy, feelings
LibriVox recording of Mr. Weston's Good Wine by T. F. Powys. Read in English by Jim Locke This 1927 novel describes an evening in 1923 when Mr. Weston, who is apparently a wine merchant, but is evidently God, visits the fictional village of Folly Down in Dorset, and meets some of its individuals, whose backgrounds and lives leading up to this day are described during the course of the novel. Mr. Weston's colleague is named Michael, which is an allusion to the Archangel. For a while time stands...
favorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, Christianity, short stories, God, england, theology, parables, evil, angel,...
LibriVox recording of The Sailor's Word-book, S - Z by William Henry Smyth. Read in English by czandra A compendium of fascinating words describing the world from far reaches of the visible universe to the ocean depths, along with creatures large and small, from the store of knowledge of a lettered navigator and seaman. The root of words is satisfyingly revealed in this and preceding volumes, A - R, as well as many words now fallen into the abyss of history. Summary by Czandra For further...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, nautical, marine, dictionary, etymology
LibriVox recording of Witch Stories by Eliza Lynn Linton. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers A collection of stories in England, Scotland and thereabout based off court records for the charge of witchcraft during the witch delusion of the fifteenth and sixteenth century. (summary by a LibriVox Volunteer) From the author: "I do not profess to have exhausted the subject, or to have made so complete a summary as I might have done, had I been admitted into certain private libraries, which...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, history, non-fiction, Occult, witchcraft
LibriVox recording of Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë. Read by Elizabeth Klett. Charlotte Bronte's classic novel Jane Eyre is narrated by the title character, an orphan who survives neglect and abuse to become a governess at the remote Thornfield Hall. She finds a kindred spirit in her employer, the mysterious and brooding Mr. Rochester, but he hides a terrible secret that threatens their chances of happiness. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett) For further information, including links to online text,...
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 21 reviews )
Topics: librivox, audiobook, classic, romance
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
LibriVox recording of Simplemente Dario by Ruben Dario. Recording by Arturo. Esta es una colleccion de poemas de Ruben Dario. This is a collection of poems by Ruben Dario. (Summary by Arturo) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . Download M4B (10MB)
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 2 reviews )
Topics: librivox, audiobook, poetry, dario
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
LibriVox recording of Sense and Sensibility (Version 3), by Jane Austen. Read by Elizabeth Klett. Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's first published novel, focuses on the lives and loves of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. The sensible Elinor and the sensitive Marianne both fall for men whose affections are otherwise engaged. The novel includes a wonderful cast of colorful supporting characters, as well as Austen's trademark dry wit and ironic narration. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)...
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 6 reviews )
Topics: librivox, literature, audiobook, love, romance, Jane Austen, Elinor Dashwood, Marianne Dashwood,...
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Librivox recording of Fairy Tales by the Brother Grimm. A classic collection of oral German folklore, brought together for posterity by the scholarly brothers Grimm in the 1800s, this epitome of fairy tales includes many of the world's best known stories. In these dark foreboding woods, you will find: Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, Rumpelstiltskin, Lily and the Lion (better known as Beauty and the Beast), and Snow White and Rose Red, among other timeless works. These tales were later heavily...
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 4 reviews )
Topics: literature, audiobook, children, librivox
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
LibriVox recording of The Valley of Fear (Version 3) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Read in English by David Clarke Receiving a mysterious cypher message from a Fred Porlock, apparent agent of the infamous Professor Moriarty, Holmes and Watson set about deciphering the message, taking them into the mysterious murder of John Douglas. The connection between the murder and the message from Porlock creates the basis for this new Sherlock mystery, the last novel written by Doyle featuring the famous...
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, Sherlock Holmes, Detective, Crime
LibriVox recording of Andersen's Fairy Tales (Version 2), by AUTHOR. A small collection of some of H.C. Andersen's fairy tales -- including The Emperor's New Clothes, The Red Shoes, The Naughty Boy and fifteen others. (Summary by Halle Kill) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit...
Topics: librivox, audiobook, children, fiction, fairy tales, myths
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
LibriVox recording of American State Trials, Volume 3 by John D. Lawson. Read in English by LibriVox volunteers. "A collection of the important and interesting criminal trials which have taken place in the United States from the beginning of our government to the present day". To the general public this series will certainly appeal as the most interesting and instructive work which has been published in this country for many years. The trial of judicial causes has even more charms...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, United States, american, trial, court, prisoner, testimony, colonel henley,...
Librivox recording of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Read by Sam Stinson . Romeo and Juliet is an early tragedy by William Shakespeare about two teenage "star-cross'd lovers" whose "untimely deaths" ultimately unite their feuding households. The play has been highly praised by literary critics for its language and dramatic effect. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and, along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays....
Topics: librivox, literature, audiobook, William Shakespeare, Romeo, Juliet, drama, play, tragedy, tragic...
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
LibriVox recording of First Love, by Ivan Turgenev, translated by Constance Garnett. Read by Martin Geeson. The title of the novella is almost an adequate summary in itself. The "boy-meets-girl-then-loses-her" story is universal but not, I think, banal - despite a surprise ending which notoriously turns out to be very little of a surprise. First Love is given its originality and poignancy by Turgenev's mastery of the piercing turning-point (akin to Joyce's "epiphanies") that...
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 3 reviews )
Topics: librivox, audiobook, literature, love, romance, novella
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
LibriVox recording of Historia celebre de la Reina de Espana Dona Juana, llamada vulgarmente La Loca. Como implica el título, esta es una biografía de Doña Juana, conocida como Juana la Loca, hija de Fernando II de Aragón e Isabel I de Castilla, los Reyes Católicos. As the title implies, this is a biography of Doña Juana, known as Juana the Mad, daughter of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabel I of Castile, the Catholic Monarchs. For further information, including links to online text,...
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: librivox, audiobook, history, biography, Juana la Loca, historia, biografia, Spain, Espana
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
LibriVox dramatic recording of Why Marry? by Jesse Lynch Williams. Why Marry? is a comedy, which "tells the truth about marriage". We find a family in the throes of proving the morality of marriage to a New Age Woman. Can the family defend marriage to this self-supporting girl? Will she be convinced that marriage is the ultimate sacredness of a relationship or will she hold to her perception that marriage is the basis of separating two lovers. "Why Marry?" won the first...
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 3 reviews )
Topics: librivox, literature, audiobook, comedy, fiction, humor, philosophy, play, romance
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
A LibriVox recording of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre is not your typical romance. It is a story of a woman who struggles with a world in which she doesn’t quite fit. Once finished with her schooling, and with no family that really cares of her she strikes out on her own as a governess. Jane Eyre searches for love, someone to care for her, and someone to care for, and finds it in unexpected places. (summary by Kri) For further information, including links to online text, reader...
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 7 reviews )
Topics: librivox, classic, audiobook, romance
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Librivox recording of the Bleak House by Charles Dickens. Read by Cynthia Lyons. Bleak House is the ninth novel by Charles Dickens, published in 20 monthly parts between March 1852 and September 1853. It is widely held to be one of Dickens’ finest and most complete novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon. Dickens tells all of these both through the narrative of the novel’s heroine, Esther Summerson, and as an...
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 2 reviews )
Topics: librivox, literature, audiobook, Bleak House, Charles Dickens, Esther Summerson, Tulkinghorn, John...
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Live Music Archive
Librivox Free Audio
Metropolitan Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Internet Arcade
Console Living Room
Books to Borrow
Open Library
TV News
Understanding 9/11
